Since the crack_van reviews are each so clearly written by one person trying to outline an entire show, I find it unsurprising that slant makes its way in.
That's the other thing that calmed me down some; It's damned hard to outline one episode, let alone an entire show. I have to give the DS9 recapper props for hitting the major plot points and characters and turning points, etc. I don't know if I'd have been able to do as good a job.
I find that as long as the writer *acknowledges* that their bias is towards a certain pairing and makes a decent attempt to mention the other popular pairings, then I'm not upset. It doesn't sound like that's what happened for DS9, though. :(
No, it really didn't. And I think the imbalance happened because Bashir and O'Brien are both crewmembers and so both had their own sections, so there was ample opportunity to "double dip" there. Garak should have had his own section, and I'm wondering if the recapper had been anyone but a B/O'Ber, would Garak have still been given such a short shrift.
The recapper did mention her partiality to B/O'B, I believe, so yeah . . . disclosure is good. I feel better now only because I have the realization that even now, G/B is much more popular than B/O'B ever will be. Also, even B/O'Bers acknowledge that if it hadn't been for Garak, Julian probably would never have discovered he liked guys *that* way. So, uh, common ground. Only, not really.
That's the other thing that calmed me down some; It's damned hard to outline one episode, let alone an entire show. I have to give the DS9 recapper props for hitting the major plot points and characters and turning points, etc. I don't know if I'd have been able to do as good a job.
I find that as long as the writer *acknowledges* that their bias is towards a certain pairing and makes a decent attempt to mention the other popular pairings, then I'm not upset. It doesn't sound like that's what happened for DS9, though. :(
No, it really didn't. And I think the imbalance happened because Bashir and O'Brien are both crewmembers and so both had their own sections, so there was ample opportunity to "double dip" there. Garak should have had his own section, and I'm wondering if the recapper had been anyone but a B/O'Ber, would Garak have still been given such a short shrift.
The recapper did mention her partiality to B/O'B, I believe, so yeah . . . disclosure is good. I feel better now only because I have the realization that even now, G/B is much more popular than B/O'B ever will be. Also, even B/O'Bers acknowledge that if it hadn't been for Garak, Julian probably would never have discovered he liked guys *that* way. So, uh, common ground. Only, not really.
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